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1. World’s Largest Cruise Ship The contract was signed between MISC Offshore Floating Ter-

With much of the talk in the cruise sector turning to the fast minals (L) Limited (MOFT) and COTL in August 2016. The growing ‘luxury adventure’ sector, it is refreshing to see ‘big- FSO will be deployed for a full ? eld development for COTL at 1 ger’ taking back the limelight. At 362 x 66 meters and 70 meters the Benchamas ? eld in the Gulf of Thailand. FSO Benchamas 2 high, Royal Caribbean’s new 228,081 GRT cruise ship takes the has a storage capacity of 650,000 barrels with 12 years design “world’s largest” title. Symphony of the Seas was delivered to life without dry-docking.

Royal Caribbean International from STX France who has been building the ship since 2015. Everything about the new cruise 4. Gladding-Hearn Delivers Ferry for NYC’s Circle Line liner is big: 18 decks, 6,800 passenger capacity, 2,747 state- Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding, Duclos Corporation, delivered rooms and 2,000+ crew and staff. The delivery comes barely again for New York City-based Circle Line Sightseeing Cruises, two years after the delivery Harmony of the Seas, and will be Inc., this the sixth 165-ft., 599-passenger sightseeing vessels. followed by another of her class due in 2021. Designed by DeJong and Lebet, N.A. and builf from steel, the Among the ship’s notable features are a 10-deck-tall slide, a 165 x 34 x 12.8 ft. vessel has a top speed of 14 knots powered zipline, laser tag, a large selection of dining options and Broad- by twin Cummins QSK-38M1 diesel engines delivering a total way musicals. She is also the ? rst cruise ship to be granted with of 2600 hp and connected to ZF W3355 gear boxes, spinning the “SILENT-E” class from DNV-GL for her low level of un- 60-inch, 5-bladed bronze propellers. For dockside maneuver- derwater noise. ing, the vessel is equipped with a 125 hp Wesmar bow thruster, powered by an electric motor. Two 140 kW, John Deere genera- 2. USCGC Nathan Bruckenthal Delivered tors supply the ship’s service power. The vessel carries 8,200

The U.S. Coast Guard took delivery on March 29, 2018 of the gallons of fuel and 4,000 gallons of potable water. The pilot-

USCGC Nathan Bruckenthal, built by Bollinger Shipyards and house is equipped with port and starboard wing stations, in ad- delivered in Key West, Florida. The 154 ft. patrol craft USCGC dition to the centerline helm.

Nathan Bruckenthal is the 28th vessel in the Coast Guard’s Sen- tinel-class FRC program, built using a proven, in-service parent 5. Two Sinopaci? c-built LEG Carriers Named craft design based on the Damen Stan Patrol Boat 4708. It has Chinese shipbuilder CIMC Sinopaci? c Offshore & Engineer- a ? ank speed of 28 knots, state-of-the-art command, control, ing Co. Ltd. (CIMC SOE) completed the ? rst two vessels in a communications and computer technology, and a stern launch series of ? ve liquid ethylene gas (LEG) carrier newbuilds for a system for the vessel’s 26 foot cutter boat. This vessel is named Chinese ship owner. The series includes two 17,000- and three after Coast Guard Hero Nathan Bruckenthal. In April 2004 22,000-cu. m. capacity LEG carriers, with the smaller two ves- while serving aboard USS Firebolt, Bruckenthal was killed in sels named and one delivered during a ceremony on March 28. the line of duty while conducting maritime intercept operations The 17,000 cu. m. capacity carriers are ? tted with cargo han- in the North Arabian Gulf. dling systems designed and produced by Wärtsilä. The systems include a reliquefaction plant for ethylene, ethane and lique? ed Image: Royal Caribbean 3. MISC Berhad Names FSO Benchamas 2 petroleum gas (LPG), as well as for various petrochemical car-

MISC Berhad held the naming and delivery ceremony of its goes. new Floating, Storage & Of? oading (FSO) facility for Chevron Also included is the transfer system comprising the cargo

Offshore (Thailand) Limited (COTL), the FSO Benchamas 2. pumps together with the control, monitoring and safety system.

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